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Submission + - Published Google Docs Documents To Appear In Googl (ghacks.net)

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dotancohen

on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @02:50PM

dotancohen writes: "Google plans to index all published documents from Google Docs users if the documents are linked from a public website. Other than a short blog post on the subject, there is very little information available directly from Google. This was to be expected from a search giant, was it not?"

Submission + - FOSS Licences Wars: trying to write an app

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dotancohen

on Monday August 24, 2009 @04:03AM

dotancohen writes: "Here's an exercise: Write a GPLed server for solving Freecell that the graphical game would communicate with using TCP/IP or a different IPC mechanism. Easy, right? Except for that pesky licensing bit. Our own Shlomi Fish gives an overview of the various options in picking up a licence for one's FOSS project, and tries to give some guidelines choosing one."

Submission + - Muggers caught on Google street view camera (reuters.com)

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Dotan Cohen

on Saturday June 20, 2009 @08:02AM

Dotan Cohen writes: "Big brother is watching. When a Groningen teen surfed to the scene of his mugging in Google maps, he was surprised to find both the place and the time of his mugging. Score one for "do no evil"."

Submission + - Firefox most popular web browser worldwide (w3schools.com) 1

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Dotan Cohen

on Saturday May 09, 2009 @04:46PM

Dotan Cohen writes: "How did this go unnoticed for four months? It seems that since the beginning of the year, Firefox is the most popular web browser. W3Schools confirms it!"

Submission + - Asteroid buzzing Earth below LEO altitude. Twice. (discovery.com)

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Dotan Cohen

on Monday April 13, 2009 @01:05PM

Dotan Cohen writes: "The Discovery website notes that 1-kilometer asteroid Apophis will narrowly miss the Earth in 2029 and will return in 2036, on an unknown orbit that may (or may not be) a collision course. This looks like a good article for getting people (and funds) interested in astronomy, if only for the potential doomsday scenario."

Submission + - MS Explorer crashes, no injuries (washingtonpost.com) 1

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dotancohen

on Saturday March 07, 2009 @11:03AM

dotancohen writes: "An appropriately-named ship, the M/S Explorer, has crashed off the Antarctic coast and sunk. No injuries were reported. It might not be stuff that matters, but I'm sure the /. community can find the mother of puns in this one. Therefore, news for nerds!"

Submission + - Suing God: Does God need notice? (wsj.com)

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Gibberish

on Thursday February 12, 2009 @01:16PM

Gibberish writes: "From TFA: "If God were sued, would one have to serve God with papers? After all, one might argue, an all-knowing God might not exactly need notice." This is what a US senator who sued God two years ago is now asking. He cannot refile, so this is the best that he could come up with. However, Senator Chambers does make a great point that "it was inconsistent for the court to take judicial notice of God in order to administer oaths and to enter an order to dismiss yet simultaneously deny that the all-knowing God has notice of the petition"."

Submission + - Maximum wage for bailout execs: $500,000 (yahoo.com) 1

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Dotan Cohen

on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @09:51AM

Dotan Cohen writes: "It seems that Obama wants to set a maximum wage for the top executives of companies receiving Federal bailout money. The question remains: a half-cool half-mil still too much?"

Submission + - Python 3.0 final released (python.org)

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dotancohen

on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @10:12PM

dotancohen writes: "Python 3 is out! From the release announcement by Barry Warsaw:

Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") represents a major milestone in Python's history, and was nearly three years in the making. This is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases, while remaining true to BDFL Guido van Rossum's vision. Some things you will notice include:

* Fixes to many old language warts
* Removal of long deprecated features and redundant syntax
* Improvements in, and a reorganization of, the standard library
* Changes to the details of how built-in objects like strings and dicts work
* ...and many more new features
"

Submission + - MS Touchless Open Source webcam-based touch system (officelabs.com)

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Dotan Cohen

on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @08:44AM

Dotan Cohen writes: "What is the world coming to? Microsoft introduces their Open Source SDK for creating touch-based systems with a webcam and a regular computer monitor. From the Project: Touchless homepage:

Touchless enables touch without touching by using a webcam to track color based markers. Touchless includes two parts:
* Touchless Demo is an open source application that anyone with a webcam can use to experience multi-touch, no geekiness required.
* Touchless SDK is an open source SDK that enables developers to create multi-touch based applications using a webcam for input, geekiness recommended.

The project's Microsoft Public License is compatible with the GPLv3 so this could turn interesting real fast."

Submission + - Affordable international shipping for eBay buyers?

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Dotan Cohen

on Saturday September 13, 2008 @07:36AM

Dotan Cohen writes: "What delivery options do non-US eBay buyers have for shipping items from the US to $randomNation? Ordering from China is usually very affordable or even free, but US sellers are only aware of expensive options such as the US Postal Service, UPS, and the like. Googling has landed me several UK options, but most of the items that I am interested in are from the US. Which delivery services do non-US slashdotters use to order from the US?"

Submission + - Google Chrome global market share over 3% (getclicky.com) 1

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Dotan Cohen

on Wednesday September 03, 2008 @05:47AM

Dotan Cohen writes: "Clicky confirms it: Google Chrome global market share 3.06107% just hours after launch. Not even Firefox 3 managed that, with the advantage of an already established user base. I personally would have doubted that geeks make up 3% of the global browser market."

Submission + - Sudden death after arrest may be new syndrome (yahoo.com)

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Dotan Cohen

on Wednesday September 03, 2008 @01:59AM

Dotan Cohen writes: ""Sudden death after arrest may be new syndrome": That's what Manuel Martinez Selles of Madrid's Hospital Gregorio Maranon thinks after reviewing cases of sudden death after arrest. I wonder if this guy would agree."

Submission + - Face/Off: Face transplantation team report success (yahoo.com)

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Dotan Cohen

on Friday August 22, 2008 @03:23PM

Dotan Cohen writes: "The "after" photo might just be the scariest thing you've ever seen, because the "before" photo looks like an 8 year old ran Photoshop's swirl tool over the guy's face and doesn't quite cross the uncanny valley. Nonetheless, there is a definite improvement in this unidentified 29 year old man's appearance after his successfull face transplant."

Submission + - Linux (+Mac +Windows XP) users: no Olympic video. 2

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Dotan

on Sunday August 10, 2008 @03:11PM

Dotan writes: "The official NBC Olymipcs website not only blocks Linux users, but blocks Mac and Windows XP users as well. Better yet, only Windows Vista ® Home Premium or Ultimate seem to be supported, so Business and Home Basic users are left out in the cold as well.

Have MSNBC gone to far this time? Or will people upgrade their OS for this?"

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